The ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and vagina are a part of which reproductive system?
They are a part of the female reproductive system.
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What are primary sexual characteristics?
Primary sexual characteristics are the differences between male and female reproductive organs.
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What are secondary sexual characteristics?
Secondary sexual characteristics are the other physical differences between men and women.
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What do the ovaries produce?
The ovaries produce ova.
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This organ carries mature ova from the ovaries to the uterus. What is it?
The fallopian tubes carry mature ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
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Where does a fertilised ovum develop into a baby?
The uterus
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Where does the baby leave the uterus?
The baby leaves the uterus through the cervix.
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What is the muscular tube that goes from the uterus to the outside of the body?
the vagina
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________ experience puberty between 10 and 16 years of age. ______ experience puberty between 11 and 16 years of age.
Girls experience puberty between 10 and 16 years of age. Boys experience puberty between 11 and 16 years of age.
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How do girls change during puberty? (give 2 examples!!)
During puberty, girls grow taller, breasts develop, hair grows in the pubic area and armpits, skin glands produce more oil, and the menstrual cycle begins.
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When do girls start the menstrual cycle?
The menstrual cycle starts in girls when they are between 10 and 15 years old.
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Approximately every 28 days, an ovary releases an ovum into one of the fallopian tubes. What is this called?
Ovulation
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What hormones do the ovaries release?
The ovaries release oestrogen and progestorone
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What is it called when women get older and their menstrual cycle stops?
This is called menopause.
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What produces sperm cells?
The testicles produce sperm cells.
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How are sperm cells transported? (use the words prostate, seminal vesicles, testicles, urethra, vasa deferentia)
Sperm cells are transported from the testicles to the vasa deferentia, seminal vesicles, prostate, and finally to the urethra.
